Troubleshooting, Top Good Habits and Home-school Links

This chapter presents ideas for solving common technical problems, and some suggestions for teaching in the classroom and developing links with children's experience at home. The most efficient way of troubleshooting is to promote awareness and understanding among all staff and pupils. If they are aware of what can go wrong, and have a few ideas about how to put it right, then one of the major stumbling blocks for the implementation of ICT in schools can be reduced hopefully. Schools need to keep parents up to date with what is going on at school, and ICT is one area which most parents now expect schools to be working on. There are a variety of ways home-school links can be developed. Children who use computers at home tend to make more progress with IT at school.